International law establishes the right to mobility by declaring the right of anyone to leave any country, including their own, and to return to it.
It also protects anyone who is migrating, regardless of their status, against any form of ill-treatment and violation of their rights, including in case of return to “a third country” (non-refoulement principle).
Does the EU’s migration policy meet with these obligations? Is it in line with the current issues regarding international (…)
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London launch of the report Migrant Detention in the European Union: A Thriving Business Outsourcing and privatization of migrant detention
6pm, Tuesday 28th March at Praxis, Pott Street, London E2 0EF
In the UK, corporations like G4S, Serco, Mitie and Capita make millions locking up migrants in privately run detention centres. Many other less known companies also jostle for contracts in the detention industry, for example providing healthcare, cleaning or construction services. Britain is a pioneer in detention outsourcing, hurtling towards the model of the massive US private prison industry.
But detention outsourcing is also taking off across Europe. This meeting will present a new (…)Against prejudices and in support of Migreurop: Claire Rodier’s book “Migrants and refugees”
Answers to indecisive, anxious and reluctant persons
The arrival of significant numbers of refugees and migrants in Europe after an exhausting route, as well as the numerous deaths in the Mediterranean Sea have often moved and “shocked” Europe’s population. However, after the first compassion and solidarity impulses, concerns and hesitations emerge, and many questions arise: what is the difference between refugees and migrants? Do France and Europe have the capacity to welcome this influx of migrants, given the economic crisis? Are walls (…)
Frontex 2.0: The European Union’s armed wing - Further reinforced and still untouchable
Frontexit Press Release - 27 April 2016
By August 2016, the European institutions aim to replace Frontex by a new coast guards and border-guards agency which will further jeopardise the rights of migrants and refugees. This new mandate reinforces the serious concerns expressed by the FRONTEXIT campaign since its establishment: deter, control and keep away men, women and children deemed undesirable while they are exerting their right to leave any country and the right to seek asylum.
Almost exactly one year after the terrible (…)Death by Rescue
Forensic Oceanography/Watch the Med Report, April 2016
One year after two successive shipwrecks that occurred on the 12 and 18 April of 2015 and led to the death of more than 1,200 migrants, 500 persons are reported missing after their boat capsized last week in the Mediterranean Sea.
Yet again, this shipwreck proves, if there were still need to do so, that surveillance and security obsession override rescue. Even though the European Union (EU) and its Member States pretend to act in order to avoid losses of human lives, the numerous – (…)